---
version: "alpha"
name: "Bauhaus"
description: "Bauhaus-inspired landing page with strict primary colors and bold geometric shapes. Ideal for identidade de marca, layouts em grade para editorial, web design geométrico, pôsteres. AI-ready template."
colors:
  primary: "#E63946"
  secondary: "#1D3557"
  tertiary: "#F4D35E"
  neutral: "#FFFFFF"
  surface: "#000000"
  accent: "#E8E8E8"
typography:
  h1:
    fontFamily: Josefin Sans
    fontSize: 2.5rem
    fontWeight: 700
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Josefin Sans
    fontSize: 1rem
    fontWeight: 400
rounded:
  sm: 2px
  md: 4px
  lg: 8px
spacing:
  sm: 2.0rem
  md: 4.0rem
  lg: 8.0rem
components:
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
    textColor: "{colors.neutral}"
    rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
    padding: 12px
---

## Overview

Bauhaus-inspired landing page with strict primary colors and bold geometric shapes. Ideal for identidade de marca, layouts em grade para editorial, web design geométrico, pôsteres. AI-ready template. The Bauhaus wasn't just a school — it was a declaration of war against ornament. Founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, it collapsed the hierarchy between fine art and craft, insisting that a well-designed chair held as much intellectual weight as a painting. The faculty reads like a modernist hall of fame: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, each bringing rigor to what had previously been intuition.

What makes Bauhaus endure isn't nostalgia — it's that the core thesis remains undefeated. Strip away decoration, respect materials, let structure speak. The preliminary course (Vorkurs) forced students to unlearn everything decorative and rebuild from pure form: the circle, the square, the triangle. Primary colors weren't a stylistic choice; they were a reduction to essentials, a visual grammar anyone could read regardless of language or class.

The Nazis shuttered it in 1933, which only accelerated its influence. Diaspora faculty seeded modernism across America and beyond. Every grid system, every sans-serif logotype, every product where form follows function — that's Bauhaus DNA still replicating.

- Density: 3/10 — Airy
- Variance: 2/10 — Structured
- Motion: 4/10 — Subtle

- **Style:** Geometric, Primary Colors, Functional, Form-Follows-Function
- **Keywords:** Bauhaus, primary colors, geometric shapes, bold, minimal ornament, form follows function, grid, circle triangle square, modernist
- **Era:** 1919-1933 Bauhaus School
- **Light/Dark:** ✓ Full / ✓ Full

## Colors

- **Primary Red** (#E63946) — Primary accent, CTAs and interactive elements
- **Primary Blue** (#1D3557) — Primary accent, CTAs and interactive elements
- **Primary Yellow** (#F4D35E) — Primary accent, CTAs and interactive elements
- **Pure White** (#FFFFFF) — Light surface, card backgrounds
- **Black** (#000000) — Deep contrast surface
- **Light Grey** (#E8E8E8) — Secondary text, borders, muted elements
- **Warm Beige** (#F5F0E1) — Extended palette, decorative use
- **Deep Grey** (#2B2B2B) — Secondary text, borders, muted elements


## Typography

- **Display / Hero:** Josefin Sans — Weight 700, tight tracking, used for headline impact
- **Body:** Josefin Sans — Weight 400, 16px/1.6 line-height, max 72ch per line
- **UI Labels / Captions:** Josefin Sans — 0.875rem, weight 500, slight letter-spacing
- **Monospace:** JetBrains Mono — Used for code, metadata, and technical values

Scale:
- Hero: clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 4rem)
- H1: 2.25rem
- H2: 1.5rem
- Body: 1rem / 1.6
- Small: 0.875rem


## Layout

- **Grid:** CSS Grid primary. Max-width containment: 1280px centered with 1.5rem side padding.
- **Spacing rhythm:** Balanced. Base unit: 0.5rem (8px).
- **Section vertical gaps:** clamp(4rem, 8vw, 8rem).
- **Hero layout:** Split-screen (text left, visual right).
- **Feature sections:** Zig-zag alternating text+image rows. No 3-equal-columns.
- **Mobile collapse:** All multi-column layouts collapse below 768px. No horizontal overflow.
- **z-index contract:** base (0) / sticky-nav (100) / overlay (200) / modal (300) / toast (500).


## Elevation & Depth

Bold geometric shapes (circles, triangles, squares) as decorative elements via CSS, strict grid layouts, minimal ornamentation, primary color blocks, clean sharp transitions (200ms), geometric hover effects (rotate, scale)

- **Physics:** Ease-out curves, 200-300ms duration. Smooth and predictable.
- **Entry animations:** Fade + translate-Y (16px → 0) over 420ms ease-out. Staggered cascades for lists: 80ms between items.
- **Hover states:** Subtle color shift + shadow adjustment over 200ms.
- **Page transitions:** Fade only (200ms).
- **Performance:** Only transform and opacity animated. No layout-triggering properties.


## Shapes

Base corner radius: 0px. See rounded tokens in front matter for the full scale.


## Components

- **Primary Button:** Sharp edges (0px) shape. Accent color fill. Hover: 8% darken + subtle lift shadow. Active: -1px translate tactile press. Font weight 600. No outer glows.
- **Secondary / Ghost Button:** Outline variant. 1.5px border in muted color. Text in primary color. Hover: subtle background fill.
- **Cards:** Sharp edges (0px) corners. Surface background. Subtle shadow (0 2px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.06)). 1px border stroke.
- **Inputs:** Label above input. 1px border stroke. Focus ring: 2px accent color offset 2px. Error text below in semantic red. No floating labels.
- **Navigation:** Primary surface background. Active item: accent color indicator. Font weight 500 when active.
- **Skeletons:** Shimmer animation matching component dimensions. No circular spinners.
- **Empty States:** Icon-based composition with descriptive text and action button.


## Do's and Don'ts

- No emojis in UI — use icon system only (Lucide, Heroicons)
- No decorative gradients — flat color only
- No shadows heavier than 0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.08)
- No pure black (#000000) — use off-black or charcoal variants
- No oversaturated accent colors (saturation cap: 80%)
- No 3-column equal-width feature layouts — use zig-zag or asymmetric grid
- No `h-screen` — use `min-h-[100dvh]`
- No AI copywriting clichés: "Elevate", "Seamless", "Unleash", "Next-Gen"
- No broken external image links — use picsum.photos or inline SVG
- No generic lorem ipsum in demos

- Do Primary colors only (red
- Do blue
- Do yellow
- Do B&W)
- Do Bold geometric shapes (circle
- Do triangle
- Do square)
- Do Strict grid layout
- Do Minimal ornamentation
- Do Geometric sans-serif typography
- Do No gradients or shadows
- Do Form follows function
- Do Responsive grid


## Use Case

Identidade de marca, Layouts em grade para editorial, Web design geométrico, Pôsteres

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